Joi Ito’s op-ed on atomic bombs and modern Japanese culture – [A]t bottom, the bombings don’t really matter to me or, for that matter, to most Japanese of my generation. I remember reading An Artist of the Floating World senior year of high school and being fascinated by the radical cultural shift that occured in Japan immediately after the war, as old ways were plowed over with malice and a new culture was created from the ashes.
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Ooh, Artist was a good book! Sorry I don’t have anything else brilliant to say 🙁
That’s enough…no one else in my class liked it. They much preferred the unreadable (to me) _Their Eyes Were Watching God_ by Zora Neale Hurston, maybe because all but one other person in the class was female, the teacher was an ardent feminist, and books by males, even Japanese-British ones, just aren’t cool anymoure.